More infoThe owners of Cornwall's last tin mine to close have announced the date when it will re-open. Cornish Metals, previously known as Strongbow, are getting ready to finally reopen South Crofty. The mine shut down on March 6, 1998, effectively putting an end to centuries of commercial tin mining in Cornwall. In its latest Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA), it said South Crofty will lead to the creation of more than 300 direct jobs and around 1,000 indirect jobs. "We believe that the current South Crofty Mineral Resource, which constrains the current study's 14-year mine life, is only a small deposit within a much broader tin system in the South Crofty mining permission area that will support a multigenerational asset, as it was once before."